Amazon takes latest step into the smart home with deal for Wi-Fi system company Eero

Telegraph 12 Feb 2019 01:19

Amazon has bought a Silicon Valley Wi-Fi router maker that will help keep its ever-growing line of smart home products online in homes that suffer from patchy internet coverage.

The Seattle-based company said it will acquire Eero, which makes WiFi extending mesh routers that consumers plug into rooms that have become connectivity black holes, marking a continued aggressive push into consumers’ homes.